How to un-reconcile an account?

[Bonnie Stroud]

Hi Mark,

I've been using GnuCash for a couple of weeks. 'n' means not reconciled. 
'c' means cleared and shows during the reconciliation process. 'y' means 
reconciled. 'y' will show up after you finish the reconciliation.

Bonnie


On 11/5/2016 11:11 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Colin and David,
>
> I have backups, but I agree with David that I don't want to reenter all the
> transactions for the past 4 months. I entered those transactions,
> reconciled 2 accounts, and found an error in the reconciliations, even
> though the accounts reconciled correctly. I want to un-reconcile the two
> accounts, fix the transactions, and then reconcile the accounts again.
>
> When I click on the "y" in the reconciled account, it changes to "c" and
> not "n". What does that mean? Should I do this?
>
> Can I just fix the transactions, ignoring the error messages about
> deleting/changing reconciled transactions, and then reconcile the accounts
> again from the beginning (June)?
>
> Mark
>
> On Nov 5, 2016 9:58 AM, "David" <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Colin,
>>
>> Yes, backups are important, but I know I wouldn't necessarily load a
>> backup in this situation. Loading a backup means I would lose all the
>> entries in my other accounts, which would really make things tough.
>>
>> Mark, if you know the transactions, of course, you can just reenter them,
>> and reconcile to your most recent statement. Then, you just tick the new
>> transactions, and it all should match. Your only option otherwise, I think,
>> is manual--as in, go through the later transactions and change them to
>> unreconciled in the register, and start over reconciling. That's how I've
>> handled it in the past, at least.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Sat Nov 05 21:18:52 GMT+05:00 2016
>> *To:* Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>> *Cc:* Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: How to un-reconcile an account?
>>
>> On 5 November 2016 at 15:42, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I un-reconcile an account?
>>>
>>> I deleted some reconciled transactions by mistake, so I want to
>>> un-reconcile the entire account and go back to before the transactions were
>>> deleted and reconcile the account again. I opened the account in June, and
>>> I don't mind going back to the very beginning and reconciling the account
>>> again from June1.
>>>
>> Surely you have a backup of your accounts file since then. If not then
>> think seriously about your backup strategy. Remember a disc or PC can go up
>> in smoke (literally or metaphorically) at any time.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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